English Translation

Iglau Sprachinsel. The work is in its infancy, but it is quite open. The fund made available by the Reichsamt resulted in a re-examination of the well-known, but never thought to be worthy of construction, Libschitz gold deposit near Neu-Knin, which has so far provided surprising evidence of 30,000 tons of quartz, leading to 18 - 20 g of gold/t in the original section. Work on the removal of gold-bearing mica (uarz near Borotitz a.d.loldau. Glimmeri In order to help remedy the large shortage of mica urgently needed for many Wehrmacht devices, the mica deposits of the area of Taus (West Bohemia) were extracted in the autumn. An excellent occurrence was opened up which is now to be mined. On its own initiative, the protective mining and metallurgy works carried out exploration work on coal at Sehlan and Beraun, on anthracite at Budweis and on lignite at Göding in Nährren. The work was almost entirely successful, with the result that already 20 tonnes of coal, 25 tonnes of anthrażite and 1 00 tonnes of lignium are produced daily. Brdöl: In the year 194l, extensive geological and geophysical investigations laid the foundations for the opening of the open-air Moravian area, which lies between the protectorate border in the south and the line Brno/Mähr. Ostrava. Drilling activity was initially limited, but it will be greatly increased in 1942. For the time being, the practical results are the identification of a hitherto unknown small oil deposit near Könitz south of Erünn, as well as the discovery of two natural gas deposits near Kostel north of Lundenburg and at Wastenowitz north of Göding. If, of course, the results of these efforts are not decisive vedeutéjg, they doek make a small contribution to the uplifting of the production of the empire.